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Here is a picture of the Franklin County, NY poorhouse that I took a
couple of years ago. Bill Russell, Theresa, NY, WilliamRus@msn.com
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click here to see another photo
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The notes below have been abstracted from the following reports.
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YATES REPORT
1824 LAW
1857 REPORT EXPLANATION
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YATES REPORT:
| ANNUAL REPORT of the STATE BOARD of CHARITIES
p 989 |
| A TABLE showing the number of Paupers supported at
the public expense in the county of MONTGOMERY, [including Hamilton
county, which is not organized,] during the twelve months
preceding April 21, 1823, with other particulars, derived from public
documents and reports furnished the Secretary of State. |
| TOWNS |
Total number of paupers
supported during the
whole of the last year. |
Total number relieved
during a part of the last year. |
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Total expenses of supporting and relieving
paupers (including fees and expenses of officers, removals and
appeals) for the last year.
Dolls. Cts.
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Expenses and cost of officers and appeals
during same period.
Dolls. Cts.
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Number of paupers removed during the last
year. |
| Bangor |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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| Chateaugay |
Not stated. |
Not stated. |
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$ 37.65 |
Not stated. |
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| Constable |
1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
145.46 |
$ 12.50 |
2 |
| Dickenson |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
436.00 |
350.00 |
1 |
| Fort Covington |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
213.48 |
30.50 |
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| Malone |
1 |
5 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
207.92 |
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| In the town of Chateaugay there is on hand a fund of $81.50,
for the support of the poor. |
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| 1824 LAW (required establishment of poorhouse vs. exempted):
exempted
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1857 INVESTIGATION:
This house is located about
two miles from the village of Malone. The building is of wood, poorly constructed, and illy fitted for its
present uses. It was originally a
farm house, and in size 80 x 24 feet, two stories high.
There is attached a
farm of 110 acres, yielding a revenue of $1,500.
The basements of the
building are occupied for domestic purposes only. In the house are eighteen rooms or wards, well warmed by
stoves, but without ventilation. From
one to eight paupers are placed in a single room.
The number of inmates
was thirty-eight, fifteen males and twenty-three females. Of these twenty-eight are foreign, ten native born; nine are
under sixteen years of age. The
sexes are separated at night, but mingle together during the day. The average number of inmates is forty-eight, supported at an expense
of thirty-one cents per week each, exclusive of the products of the farm. The paupers are employed, the men on the farm, the women about the
house. It has been visited once
during the year by the board of supervisors. They regulate the government of the house and the system of diet. The food of the paupers is of a plain and wholesome quality. The house is supplied with Bibles, but there is no regular religious
instruction. A teacher of the
common English branches was employed in the house for three months during last
winter, but the children usually attend the district school.
A physician is employed
by the year at $28, and comes only when called. There are no facilities for bathing. One birth and two deaths have occurred during the last year. No contagious diseases have raged.
Of the inmates seven
are lunatics, three males and four females, all paupers, none are reported
improved or cured. But one is
constantly confined, and he in a cell. They
are restrained by confinement, and sometimes handcuffs, shackles, and the
straight jacket are used. Two
have been admitted within the year. They
receive no medical or other attendance, nor does the house permit
classification. The
superintendents usually discharge the insane; sometimes the power is exercised
by the keeper. Two of the paupers
are blind, four idiots--two male, two female.
The keeper reports
nine-tenths of the paupers as here by reason of intemperance and its effects.
There is here a poor
cripple, almost idiotic, whose limbs are drawn up and under him in strange
contortions, and his tongue paralyzed by the disease. He can wear no garments but a loose shirt.
The
unnatural parents were committed to prison, and the child sent to this house.
The hospital department
of the house is wretched, and the nursing and medical attendance inadequate. The
general appearance of the
establishment however is good, and the rooms are particularly neat and clean.
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Transcribed by PHS-Volunteer, Cheramie Breaux in Louisiana
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NOTES:
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article
from PRESS REPUBLICAN ONLINE  |
4/20/02
Old County Home partially collapses
By DENISE A. RAYMO Staff
Writer
MALONE — The front portion of the historic
building known as the Old County Home just outside the Village of
Malone collapsed earlier this week.
(click link above to continue) |
"There is an article in the December 2000 issue of Adirondack Life
magazine called, "Hard Times Come Again No More." It mentions
several of the poorhouses in and around Warren and Essex County. There are
pictures of ones in ESSEX County, WARREN County, and FRANKLIN County in
the article."
Kathy Campbell katcamp@mediaone.net
| This magazine's website has been redone, and the
excerpt from this article is no longer available.
There was
a great anecdote about
a colorful "local character" (complete with old photo of him
in his old Adirondack woodsman dress) who sadly wound up in the Warren
County Poorhouse
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RECORDS:
Poorhouse INMATE REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES
Microfilm Series A1978 Roll
Number(s) 35-36 more information
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CEMETERY:
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| We are hoping to build this base of information about the poorhouse in FRANKLIN county through the helpful participation of readers. All are requested to submit items of interest by sending
e-mail
to The Poorhouse Lady.
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